Pick N Pay Stores - Bitcoin

Communities South Africa
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Hi All,

Pick N Pay stores in South Africa have recently announced that they support Bitcoin as a payment method across their entire network.

There are currently 436 Pick N Pay elements according to this overpass query, some of which have already had the Bitcoin tags manually added.

I am part of the organised editing community BTCMap.org and would like to discuss an automated edit where we add the appropriate Bitcoin tags to the Pick N Pay stores.

Is this something the local SA community would like to work on with me?

Many thanks,

Nathan

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What would the proposed tags be?

payment:lightning=yes ?

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Hi @Firefishy,

The proposed tags are:

currency:XBT=yes
payment:lightning=yes
payment:lightning_contactless=no
payment:onchain=no
check_date:currency:XBT=YYY-MM-DD

This is in accordance with Bitcoin OSM Wiki Page.

Cheers,

Nathan

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Looks like you’ve been busy! :muscle:

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Hey @Firefishy - are you happy that we progress and automatically tag the reminder of the sites or do we need to build more concensus?

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The tags look ok to me, except for maybe the check_date:currency:XBT. There are some franchised Pick n Pay stores which may have different payment options.

Additional consensus would be ideal, but I personally don’t mind if you proceed.

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OK, no rush.

I’ll check with the payment provider what the situation is regarding franchises and report back.

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Confirmation from payment provider that franchises are included.

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OK, we will proceed unless there are any objections within the next 48 hrs.

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@Firefishy - Do you want to proceed with the update?

We would prefer that this is done by in-country users.

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Go for it.

I have been trying to complete the coverage of Pick n Pay stores, but likely at least a few weeks off, but that doesn’t need to hold back the BTC updates.